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Yulia Skripal, who was poisoned with a nerve agent along with her father in an attack squarely blamed by Britain on Moscow, used her first public statement yesterday to say that she hopes to eventually return to Russia. Seen on camera for the first time since she fell into a coma after coming into contact […]

The Windsors and Hollywood gathered for a thoroughly modern nuptials

Amid the 500-year-old splendour of St George’s Chapel freighted with the legacy of medieval monarchs and all the pageantry that Windsor and the Windsors could muster, it was indeed a thoroughly modern wedding. Under a vaulted roof built for Henry VII, royalty of the ancient and aristocratic variety intermingled with the bluebloods of its contemporary […]

Five quirky post-war pubs from Swindon to Scunthorpe given listed protection

As austerity gave way to optimism in 1950s Britain, so too did the hostility of planners to new pubs. The result was a renaissance of bespoke boozers built in bomb-damaged cities and on new housing estates across the land. Falling drinking rates and rising alcohol prices have since thrown that trend into sharp reverse but […]

Police gear up for huge security operation as royal wedding coincides with FA Cup final

For those in charge of ensuring the safety, security and transport of Britain’s wedding-going and football-loving public, this Saturday represents something of a perfect storm. Within an eight-hour period and a 30-mile radius, police – aided either discretely or conspicuously by bodies from the SAS to a small army of volunteer marshals, will have to […]

Neglected industrial landmarks from Grimsby to Rochdale to get millions in heritage funding

Exclusive From Britain’s largest collection of architecture built to serve the fishing industry to the distinctive kilns that helped give the “Potteries” their name, they are sites containing some of the nation’s most important and neglected industrial heritage. Now eight sites ranging from the Kasbah at the heart of Grimsby’s once world-beating fishing port to […]

Theresa May makes unprecedented apology to Libyan dissident and his wife to settle rendition and torture case

Prime Minister Theresa May has issued an unprecedented apology to a Libyan husband and wife after admitting that the British government’s actions contributed to their kidnapping and subsequent torture by the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. Mrs May acknowledged that Fatima Boudchar, who was nearly five months pregnant at the time of her detention in 2004, […]

Legal secretary Sylvia Bloom worked until she was 97. That was not the most surprising thing about her career

When Sylvia Bloom joined a small Manhattan law firm called Cleary Gottlieb as a legal secretary in 1947, she was only the third employee to be added to its ranks. By the time she retired a full 67 years later at the age 97, the company had morphed into an international powerhouse with 1,200 lawyers […]

Scotland Yard’s gang member database is ‘not fit for purpose’, says Amnesty International

A database used by Britain’s largest police force to track suspected gang members is “racially discriminatory” and should be radically overhauled or scrapped as part of efforts to deal with the wave of violent crime assailing major cities, a major report warns. The Metropolitan Police “Gangs Matrix”, set up in the wake of the 2011 […]

Record May bank holiday temperatures boost sales of burgers and rosé for retailers

Britain experienced its hottest ever early May bank holiday yesterday after the temperature reached nearly 29C in London and large swathes of the country enjoyed unbroken sunshine. A plume of hot air originating from the Continent pushed the mercury to its highest level since the bank holiday was introduced in 1978, providing a sorely needed […]

A scoop of vanilla ice cream might be a prerequisite for the enjoyment of a sunny British bank holiday but fans of the mainstay flavour of billions of frozen dessert servings may have to prepare for disappointment. Artisanal ice cream producers are among a range of enterprises feeling the effects of an extraordinary rise in […]

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